Summary
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This engaging and comprehensive book explores social work with problematic substance use. Anna Nelson offers social workers new insight on the subject, helping students to understand the issue as it affects service users across a range of social work practice settings. Written from both an anti-discriminatory and evidence-based perspective the text highlights successful responses to the issues surrounding problematic substance use, so that students and social workers can achieve best practice.
The book provides a detailed understanding of:
Historical and current policy relating to prohibition, drug use and problematic substance use; A range of substances and their potential effects on service users; Key models of practice including screening and assessment, brief intervention, motivation approaches and relapse prevention; The particular issues and special needs of specific service user groups who may be experiencing problematic substance use
Considering the effects of problematic substance use across a wide range of service-user groups, the book takes a reflective approach to this widely misunderstood area. Each chapter includes reflective exercises and examples of further reading challenging students to critically reflect on their practice, and increase their awareness in the area.
Social Work Practice with Substance Users will be essential reading for all social work students, particularly those taking courses in problematic substance use and addiction. It will also be useful for qualified social workers and for students taking related courses across the health and social care field.
Relapse Prevention
Relapse Prevention
‘Relapse prevention’ is a cognitive-behavioural model primarily used when working with people who have problematic substance use and who have already made a commitment to behaviour change. A large body of research has been conducted to support its efficacy for use with problematic substance use (Gossop, 2002). There is also evidence to support its use with specialised populations, including youth, older people, offenders and black and ethnic minorities (Witkiewitz and Marlatt, 2007). It is likely that seeing ‘relapse’ as a dynamic and complex process requiring an assortment of coping strategies and interventions is useful in a variety of social work settings where service users are attempting behaviour change.
Relapse prevention is a collection of techniques that increase the client's ability to control cravings ...
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